Bloomsbury Studies in Modern German Philosophy The Philosophy of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: On the Contradiction between System and Freedom

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The Philosophy of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Dedication
Preface
Note on Translation
Abbreviations
	Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
	Other Abbreviations
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 Life and Work
	Departures (1743–79)
	The Spinoza Controversy and its Consequences (1780–9)
	The Privileged Heretic (1790–1819)
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 Jacobi’s “Spinoza and Antispinoza”
	The Spinoza Letters as an Historical Event
	System and Freedom
	Grounding versus Causing: A Founding Confusion
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 Groundless Belief: A Philosophical Provocation
	Step One: Belief in Divine Revelation
	Second Step: The Philosophy of Reflection
	Third Step: The Metaphysics of Action
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 Does Spirit Have Esprit? On the Figures of Soul, Spirit, and Reason in Jacobi’s Philosophy
	Of Spirit and Esprit
	Toward a New View of Reason
	Of Existential Things: The Representation of the Conditioned and the Unconditioned
	The Pragmatism of the Soul and the Personal Freedom of Spirit
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 Between Spinoza and Kant: Jacobi on Freedom and Persons
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 That, What, or Who? Jacobi and the Discourse on Persons
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 Brother Henriette? Deconstructions of Friendship in Derrida and Jacobi
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 “I am and there are things outside me”: Overcoming the Consciousness Paradigm with Jacobi’s Realism
	Introduction: Jacobi’s Original Insight
	Two Paths to the Problem
	The Representation Model of Consciousness
	Idealism and Realism
	The Epistemic Realism of Intuition
	The Practical Realism of Causality
	The Irreducible Individuality of the Self
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 The “Tiresome Thing in Itself”: Kant – Jacobi – Fichte
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 I-hood and Person: The Fichtean Aporia and the Debate with Jacobi
	Introductory Considerations
	I-hood and Person: An Overview of the Problem
	In Alliance with Jacobi? On the State of the Discussion around 1800
	Neither Cajus nor Sempronius: “Actual Consciousness” in the Crystal Clear Report
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 Fichte’s Vocation of Man—A Convincing Response to Jacobi?
	Fichte Reacts to Jacobi
	Doubt—Spinoza’s System and the Problem of Freedom
	Knowledge—Theoretical Idealism and Nihilism
	Belief—Practical Realism and Reason’s Blueprint for the World
	A Brief Synopsis
12  This Individual and No Other? On the Individuality of the Person in Schelling’s 
Freedom Essay
	Schelling’s Personalist Turn
	Unity and Individual Identity of the Person
	The Distinction between Ground and That Which Exists in Reference to Spinoza
	The Ontology of the Person: Natural Selfhood without Self
	Individuality as Primordial Position: The Moral Self-Creation of Personal Identity
	The Impersonal Abolition of the Person
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 System and Temporality: Jacobi Contra Hegel and Schelling
	Hegel, Jacobi, and Spinoza
	Hegel, Jacobi, and Schelling
	Questions for Schelling and Hegel
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 Third Position of Thought toward Objectivity: Immediate Knowing
	The Fundamental Conflict
	The Programmatic Insights of the Jacobi-Review
	The Ambiguous Semantics of Immediacy
	A Structural Sketch of the “Third Position”
	Four Functions of the “Third Position”
	A Cross Check: Jacobi’s Position
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 Metaphysics or Logic?The Importance of Spinoza in Hegel’s Science of Logic
	Introduction
	On the Relevance of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
	Spinoza in Hegel’s Logic of Being and Essence
	The Logical Alienation of Metaphysics and Its Consequences
Bibliography
	Primary Texts: Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
	Other Primary Sources
	Secondary Literature
Proof of First Publication
	Leitmotifs
	Critical Relations
Index